The volcanic eruption that ravaged Pompeii in year 79 is one of the most famous in history. It is known how its victims died, but how did they live? A new insight into the lives of the people who lived in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius before its cataclysmic eruption.

Determined to hold on to the throne, Cleopatra seduces the Roman emperor Julius Caesar. When Caesar ...

It is 200 years before the birth of Christ and Rome is the new superpower of the ancient world. She ...

After the 1815 Restoration, an aging revolutionary finds himself reluctantly involved in an attempte...

The subject of this documentary is a straightforward one: presenter Andrew Wallace-Hadrill introduce...

Climb aboard the illustrious Bernina Express for a festive ride through spectacular Alpine landscape...

After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lyg...

Titus Andronicus returns from the wars and sees his sons and daughters taken from him, one by one. S...

Johan van der Keuken went against the grain in 1980: from Amsterdam (on April 30 with the coronation...

When two brothers are forced to fight in the Korean War, the elder decides to take the riskiest miss...

After the death of the paranoid emperor Tiberius, Caligula, his heir, seizes power and plunges the e...
A present-day young actor becomes convinced he is the reincarnation of Antinous, sparking a psychose...

After the World War I, Mussolini's perspective on life is severely altered; once a willful socialist...
Siddharta and Fabrizio, one of them nine years old, the other one 65, are the core of a community th...

In 19th-century Italy, Giacomo Leopardi channels his debilitating illness and isolation into poetry.

In the small mountain town of Barga, Italy, a group of four filmmakers speak with local cat lovers a...

Amanda Knox served four years in an Italian prison for the murder of her British flatmate Meredith K...

Documentary released to coincide with the British Museum's exhibition dedicated to the man who ruled...